Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCENE ONE. Jack Aspinall's Clermont Club on Berkeley Square, located in an 18th century town house, small, plush and, since it opened in 1962, almost incredibly exclusive (the membership fee of $84 a year is a trifle compared with the need for the "proper credentials"). Time: a weekday night. After a late, after-the-theater supper with friends at Annabel's, London's leading discothèque (which happens to be right downstairs), the handsome son of a peer breezes up for "a spot of chemmy." Chairs are found for his group to watch; drinks...
Institutional Prestige. So far, the pressures have been greatest at the top graduate schools-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, California at Berkeley, M.I.T. and Caltech. "Students too often seem to seek out institutional prestige instead of departmental prestige," comments Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, who contends that there are "pockets of inadequately used graduate capacity" at many good schools. Out of 5,246 applicants last fall, Harvard took only 1,853. Yale's Law School got 2,000 applications for 165 openings. Michigan's graduate office mailed out 20,000 applications, got 12,000 back, accepted half, enrolled...
SIMON KARLINSKY Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of California Berkeley...
...percentage of students who join Greek societies is shrinking steadily. Fraternity membership has declined at the University of Illinois, despite an increase of 4,000 more undergraduate men in the past ten years. Similarly, at the University of California's Berkeley campus, Greek societies lost 20% of their members in five years, while undergraduate enrollment rose 13%. On some campuses, fraternities are numerically as strong as ever, but everywhere students take Greek membership much less seriously. "For the first time a student can feel he neither should-nor should not-belong to a fraternity," says Ohio State...
...classes, although 50% said they opposed some of the F.S.M. tactics. "The ease with which a majority of students could find, however ephemerally, a commitment and a moral drive in opposing the university administration is evidence of a widespread, if latent, alienation," the report says. Furthermore, the committee found, Berkeley's brightest students were most active in the protests. "Whatever judgment is made of their behavior, Berkeley has to cherish this kind of student...